- Sonnino
Infobox CityIT
img_coa =Sonnino-Stemma.png
official_name = Comune di Sonnino
region =Lazio
province = Latina (LT)
elevation_m = 430
area_total_km2 = 63
population_as_of =2004-12-31
population_total =7070
population_density_km2 =100
timezone = CET, UTC+1
coordinates = coord|41|25|N|13|14|E|type:city(7060)_region:IT
frazioni = Capocroce, Cerreto, Frasso, La Sassa, Sonnino Scalo
telephone = 0773
postalcode = 04010
gentilic = Sonninesi
saint = SanCaspar del Bufalo andSt. Mark
day =October 21 andApril 25
mayor = Gino Cesare Gasbarrone (since May 2002)
website = [http://www.comune.sonnino.latina.it/ www.comune.sonnino.latina.it] |www.sonnino.blogspot.comSonnino is a town and commune in the
province of Latina , in theLazio region of centralItaly . It is the birthplace of Italian national team footballerAlessandro Altobelli .
In July 1819 Ercole, Cardinal Consalvi, Secretary of State at the Vatican ordered Sonnino to be razed to the ground as it had become a notorious haunt of the banditti in the Campagna di Roma.(Compendio Istorico su Pio VII, Milan 1824; Biografia del' Italiani viventi, art. Consalvi; and Tournon, Etudes Statistiques sur Rome.)
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